Interim Soln

rbuser

Hi,

I have used RB 7.04 to create custom reports for a while and have found
that the flexibility and detail to be excellent.

However now has come the time that the Windows app be ported to a
Dephi.NET 2006 website. I understand that currently no .NET version of
RB exists and I also understand you are working on a COM soln however I
was wondering if there was a interim solution that I could implement
now or within the next month.

What I am thinking is get the website to call a DLL pass in parameters
of the Report and Stream back a PDF version.

Unfortunately the soln has to handle mutilple connections and be
reasonably stable.

I really dont want to turn to Crystal Reports or alternative package as
I would have to recreate all the reports, not to mention learn a new
package.


Has anyone got any suggestions.
Jeremy

nardmoseley

1. One solution is to use RB Server Edition. This provides a multi-tier
solution. A multi-threaded report server can run as a windows service and a
webtier application can handle the generation of the web browser inteface
(javascript/XHTML) which contains a print button that generate a pdf. This
provides very high performance - there is caching a the server and webtier
levels and there is support for incremental page generation. And it is a RAD
solution - we have taken care of all the low level details for you. We have
an example of building the WebTier into a COM object that can be called by
ASP.NET.

Live Server Demo: www.digital-metaphors.com/RBServerLive

Download a trial version and then work thru the RB Server Developers guide
tutorials. That will provide the fundamental concepts. After you do that,
you can download the following ASP.NET example..

www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/AspDotNetWebTier.zip


2. The other solution is to build your own COM server.